Mud, mud, mud! AND Somebody did WHAT with duct tape?? :/

   Here in colorado we have received a huge amount of rain compared to what we usually get.  With our dry soil it doesn't soak in very fast so we get lots and lots of MUD!  Dry dirt that has been packed down by horses for years just escalates that problem.  Here is a picture of what I worked in this past week.

The mud makes work about 10x as hard for three reasons.

#1.  The deep mud is slippery and makes it hard to get traction to pull the wheelbarrow.

#2.  The wheels of the wheelbarrow get stuck and caked in mud.

#3.  The poop is all soggy.  This makes it about 3x as heavy in the already stuck wheelbarrow.  

    Its raining more this weekend, but we're all praying it dries out soon.  When it does, work will be a breeze!

  And moving on.  One of the most confusing things I have ever seen.  I'm just not sure what to say.  I want to give people the benefit of the doubt and say that there is a reasonable explanation.  At the same time I just can't come up with any reasonable explanation in my head.  So maybe I'm just not thinking hard enough, or somebody has a strange sense of humor.  

Duct tape.  We're all familiar with its uses around the house/shop/etc.  We also know that with all the new colors and techniques, people are making wallets, purses, and even clothes out of it.  What I was not prepared for was this.

Somebody TAPED THE DIRT DOWN?  They didn't tape anything to the dirt, and nothing was being covered up.  The dirt was simply, taped down to itself.  Regardless of why somebody did this I got a kick out of it.  And I've been speculating for the past few days about why somebody did this.  

My theory:  Somebody believed that gravity was not working well in this particular spot and was afraid that the dirt might float away leaving a hole that a horse might injure itself in.  They decided as a good samaritan to secure the dirt in this spot to the surrounding dirt with this worlds strongest magic.  DUCT TAPE.

Any opposing/supplementing theories are welcomed in the comments section.  :)